{"nrhp_refnum":"91000305","name":"Rodgers, Patrick, Farm","other_names":["Rodgers Ranch"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"315 Cortsen Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pleasant Hill","county":"Contra Costa County","state":"CA","lat":37.94347276000008,"lon":-122.08720088799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-03-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Literature"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small farm at 315 Cortsen Road in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California, made up of an 1868 two-story Greek Revival farmhouse, a barn of about the same date, and a stone retaining wall on 1.7 historic acres. The house was enlarged in the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be a rare surviving wheat farm from the era when wheat dominated Contra Costa County agriculture, qualifying under Criterion A. It is also tied under Criterion B to novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart, who lived in the farmhouse from 1937 to 1939 and wrote Their Own Country and worked on The Cup and the Sword there.","narrative":"Patrick Rodgers Farm is a surviving piece of Contra Costa County's wheat-growing past, set among suburban homes in Pleasant Hill. The 1.7-acre historic core holds a two-story Greek Revival farmhouse built between 1866 and 1868, with an early 1900s L-shaped addition and wraparound porch, plus an unaltered barn of the same period and a stone retaining wall. Patrick Rodgers, an Irish-born settler, bought the farm in 1868 and grew wheat, which dominated the county's agriculture until about 1900. The farm later shifted to vineyards and orchards, including almonds, and stayed productive until it was sold for development in 1978. The property is also linked to novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart, who lived here from 1937 to 1942. She wrote Their Own Country and The Cup and the Sword, the latter later filmed as This Earth Is Mine. The buildings are now vacant and deteriorated, and the park district plans restoration.","period_of_significance":"1868-1900","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No Style (Greek Revival detailing noted in the house)","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Both the house and barn are listed as vacant and not in use. The buildings are described as deteriorated and unstable from lack of maintenance. The park district plans restoration and a living history park.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.888079-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000305.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000305/a20d2bd3ef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000305/a20d2bd3ef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Rodgers_Farm_(Pleasant_Hill,_CA).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Rodgers_Farm_(Pleasant_Hill,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858567","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Rodgers_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7147558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/contra-costa-county/rodgers-patrick-farm-91000305/"}